Today after choir I’ve been reading, I guess a treat after two physics test today. A breather, as there’ll be two more next week, and I still have one to finish tomorrow. It’s amazing the way stories affect people who really love them. This story is tender and raw and heavy. It’s about moving forward, no matter how hard. It’s about losing and gaining and feeling the weight of your past even as you stumble in to something as miraculous as love. It’s about holding on to your faith, your joy, even when something horrible happens, and your family is falling a part and your heart won’t follow societies rules. It’s about a girl named Bess who lives on the edge of the Niagara Falls.

I want you to know I liked listening to your music today. I hadn’t heard of most of it, and it’s not the sort of style I usually listen to, but I actually really liked it. I found it kind of soothing and raw and real and haunting all at the same time. Thanks for opening up to me a bit. I’m not even close to knowing what your deal is, but yesterday when we talked about our old schools I think I started to understand.

You still throw words at my face sometimes, so I’m just going to keep my thank yous safe where you won’t read them for now.

These nights its hard to turn of the lights/I just want to draw and draw and draw/create something beautiful/capture some truth